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what a great review, thank you for the this Karl, I'm a "conservative own generative" musician that is interested in this generative music more from the point of using tools like these to generate music that can also be transposed and used over chord progressions, so I would like to ask you a few questions: 1.) 2 years later, do you still own it and use it as much as you did when you made these videos 2.) seeing what is available now in the similar price range (like the torso t-1 and maybe others), would you still choose /recommend this device, or recommend something else for the purpose that I mentioned above. 3.) Do you know / use any software tools that have capabilities like what these hardware tools have ? Thank you again !!!

great explanation. thank you

Drops hard son mmmmmm❤

Thanks. I was a bit confused about the logic behind the quarter notes. But now I understand.

great stuff - tnx !

Very good.

Nice work.

To much klick klack

Beautiful!

By the way - what really set "Cond.Labs" apart , is that they WANT to hear what a dude like YOU got to say - and i know for a fact , that if you aproach them with the "Not so Fortunate Quirk´s" They will go trough fire to make an update that`ll take care of OUR problems - and maybe even turn some of the "Quirk´s" into "Great Features" , with the excellent programming these dudes are known for ,- So let´s make the Noodle GREATER (again) and please talk to Cond.Lab´s. about your findings, cause i think you got it spot on here ! - Have a great new year mr.Clarke 😉👆

i love the way you use the noodler - fine video , man !

I wrote THIS to Conductive Labs : You Guy´s ROCK ! I love everything about your products AND your Work ethics ! Have a GRAND new Year - and please get CV (Controlled Voltage , for all us Eurorack adopters ) into the Noodler ! 🙂

You can also name the CC numbers in the main Pad, Drone, Motif1, Motif2 tracks.. this helps when you have CC automations as well.

I just bought this thing used on an impulse an hour ago because my rig had an empty power socket that was giving me the ick. I don't need more voices or effects, and this seemed like something different. I immediately got buyer's remorse because most of my gear is Elektron and already sports some sick (and expensive) sequencing capabilities. Glad I found your vid that confirms that this is on some other shit from the Elektron sequencers and that if I take the time to learn it, I could trick people into thinking I was actual musician ;-) I mostly do harder style techno (I'm a Michigander), so I'm a bit concerned about how it will fit in with my workflow, but I guess I could tack it into Digitakt tracks for some pitched polymeter drums. That sounds pretty techno, right? Great vid, bro!

Hi Karl, Loved the comments, had me chuckling away to myself. But I want to applaud you in showing how things dont always turn out. There are two great lessons here, the first is showing how you spotted the problems, how you "recovered" them and didn't simply just "throw the teddy out the cot". The second, and I think even more important is that far to many TH-cam videos show a 3 minute section of music that took 30 hrs to work out, and the trouble with that is we judge our 3 minute noodles against those videos and get disheartened. So its refreshing to see that things don't always go well great "Noodlers" like yourself and so we should all persevere.

Beautiful! I could listen to this forever.

Yes! The launchpad pro 3 with the NDLR is a great combo. The recent firmware update adds some useful options that can be controlled via custom control layouts.

I really love your choice of cords and I'm about to receive my NDLR and would like to use the same cords as those played in this video. Is it simply a case of selecting the Lydian scale in Db and the triad cords: I Db, iv°G, V Ab and iii F, or is there more to this? Also, why does the NDLR screen state Dd Lydian instead of Db Lydian? Thanks for your video, it's very inspiring.

NDLR user of a few years experience here, & many hardware sequencers in a largely hw rig (cirklon, notron, deluge, tracker, octatrack... plenty of choice!). the two issues you describe- the display of the actual range of notes played by the pad section, post-modulation &/or midi control could certainly be a bit more useful, but it does show you the range of midi note numbers in play, & I tend to gravitate towards this if I'm worried something is getting out of bounds. I control these parameters quite closely as the NDLR may be contributing parts to a larger arrangement coming from another sequencer. the pattern lengths can be changed in two different places, both for pitches & for rhythm, & this leads to the confusion... so.... if I make a pattern with just four steps, I fill up the blank space with repeats of those four steps. it's tedious, but easier if you make the entries from a keyboard instead of the encoder. I've found that you can 'record' into the pattern edit from an external sequencer, so essentially you can edit the pattern 'live' from (say) a doepfer maq, or anything else sending out a repeated pattern of notes. haven't tried this with velocities & the rhythm editor yet. on my wish list is having the thing switch its own brain off a bit & follow the notes coming into it to form the basis of what notes it allows back out. so you could play a C major chord then a Db minor... even with extensive midi control, this can be a bit of a fumble when the NDLR is trying to force everything into one of its own scales. the trigger for changing key would then be either at a bar end or when it sees three simultaneous note-ons from an external source. I'd like a better quantised stop-start of the elements too. but I manage with the external control functionality as it is, & at the moment I'm using it in a very minimal set-up with one 1010 black box attached, full of multisampled instruments, & providing basic direction to the NDLR from one of its own sequencer tracks. I think they've got a lot right, in a tool that-for me- makes a lot of sense in a band context too, where you might be on the receiving end of a guitarist's chord suggestions & need to translate them into keyboard/string/brass parts.

Brilliant, thanks!

beautiful piece! Thanks for the tutorial videos. Very helpful.

Really nice! We’re assembling a new batch of NDLRs now, soon to be sold again! Hope you see a bump in views! Thanks for all the great videos!

Your tracks always hit the right note. Keep them coming! 🎼👌❤

Such a great overview mate. Wonderful. thank you for all the work that it took to make this.

Are you whispering as not to wake the baby?

Pretty easy to control VSTs in Bitwig If anyone is on the fence. When I first got it, that's how I tested it out first before getting it wired up in the main setup. Been a pretty fun run.

mine dose not show NDLR it says core midi below i have a mac

Very nice review i would like to see the other parts of NDLR review!!

Really nice review , thank you!

Sound great. Thank you for sharing.

I started searching for NDLR sequecer, and your channel pops up, (I don not own one, but love all your ndlr jams, SUBBED.

You're explaining this so terribly.

Very nice!

This is amazing as I also recently bought these... When I get time lets swop notes. Now looking to get Microcosm to chain to my Big Sky :)

Wonderful! So mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing.

I need to try the chord sequencing on NDLR!

Sometimes I feel the NDLR feels a bit outtdated, or options limited. The harmonizing feature of 4 sequencers has been unique, but now there is also the Oxi One (have you seen it?) that also features this, and a lot more. seems like a more complete sequencer imo, perhaps thats more 'the ultimate' sequencer.....

Nice. We need more NDLR jams on TH-cam. This is a very underrated box. And you've made it sing a pretty epic little movie score!

Great demo. Love the chill vibes. I've had the NDLR for about 20 months, and it is the tool I use when I just want to sit in the glowing dusk of my music room synths and jam for myself. It is an amazing box. Another thing I did with the NDLR was to create four CV control modules in Cherry Audio Voltage, so that every parameter of the NDLR could be manipulated by oscillators, glides, noise, etc. So that takes generative music to a whole new level. Basically, Voltage controls the NDLR, which sends MIDI back into Voltage that then controls various synths. In addition, the synths are also undergoing CV manipulation, so you get continually evolving sound from them, along with evolving musical patterns. Another fun trick is to use very slow, synced random oscillators or sample and holds to switch instruments. About 6 months back, I purchased a Launchpad Mk3, and sometimes use that with the above setup to add a little more funk, or sequence the percussion. However, the Faderfox PC12 is my goto device to add overrides to all of the above.

Brah, you made a 12 minute video about sound and melodic patterns but didn't have any music in your video.

Fantastic vid - really helped me see under the hood while I patiently waiting on my NDLR delivery - thx!

This is brilliant! Thanks for the suggestion, Karl. Combining a NDLR with VCV Rack is a great concept. I'm constantly amazed by the music you are able to create. It is obvious to me that you are a master of the NDLR and appreciate you sharing your creations and knowledge. Thank you.

Thanks, also really into the soundtrack ambient vibe. Great stuff.

That’s awesome! Kudos on the composition. 👏

I like your ndlr domain. I just bought one and uploaded a video testing it to my channel. I just subscribed, you give quality content

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it and it got me thinking. Could one use midi effects in the DAW to randomise the scale degree and/or chords type for a similar result? One could even have different levels of randomisation for different sections of a piece. And yes, generative is lots of fun, even though I do also enjoy pressing those buttons on the ndlr when I jam. Showing my age, but back in the 80s, my trusty Yamaha drum machine would let you assign specific midi notes to individual drum parts (c5 to the kick, g4 to the snare etc ). You could program simple bass parts like this by outputting the midi to a synth, but more fun was to assign a pentatonic scale (for example) to a kit, play back an existing drum part for a song and see what resulted when sent out to your synth. It wasn't random, as such, as the piece reflected the structure of the drum part, but was very unpredictable and often very musical. (You could tweak tempo and the midi tuning for individual drums until something worthwhile happened.) Chuck on a delay, use or design a suitable synth patch, add some distortion and chorus, and send it all through a large reverb... Hours of fun!

Interesting idea to use vcv rack. Out of curiosity, how come you used it over the built in LFO’s?

Nice addition to your past NDLR series!

very nice, how are you doing the chord changes in this video?

Its a great tonal idea generator indeed. Can you use another sequencer to trigger the NDLR chord buttons? that would be great in a song for instance.